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Re: Need trusted NTP Sources


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:35:25 +0200

On (2014-02-06 21:14 -0500), Jay Ashworth wrote:

My usual practice is to set up two in house servers, each of which 
talks to:

And then point everyone in house to both of them, assuming they accept
multiple server names.

Two is worst possible amount of NTP servers to have. Either one fails and your
timing is wrong, because you cannot vote false ticker. And chance of either of
two failing is higher than one specific of them.

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  ++ytti


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